Valdes, Dennis Nodin.

Organized agriculture and the labor movement before the UFW Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California / [electronic resource] : Dionicio Nodín Valdés. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011. - vi, 313 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Colonizing a movement : the Federacion Libre de Trabajo in Puerto Rico -- Dreams of democratic unionism : the Confederacion General de Trabajadores and Puerto Rican agricultural workers -- Up from colonialism : Hawaiian plantation agriculture and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union -- Challenges and survival : sustaining agricultural unionism in Hawai'i -- Marked in the annals of the labor movement : the National Farm Labor Union, organized labor, and the DiGiorgio Strike -- From factory to industrial area : areawide organizing in the San Joaquin and Imperial valleys.


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Agricultural laborers--History.--Puerto Rico
Labor unions--History.--Puerto Rico
Agricultural laborers--History.--Hawaii
Labor unions--History.--Hawaii
Agricultural laborers--History.--California
Labor unions--History.--California


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